App piracy: the good, the bad and how to reduce it

0.phoneArena04 Jan 2013, 09:07posted on

A surprising news emerged these days: Installous, an app for jailbroken iPhones and iPads that allowed users to install pirated apps for free, has been discontinued due to lack of enough user interest. Does that mean that people have started spending more money on apps? Is this a sign that app piracy is in decline? While the end of Installous sure is a win for developers and publishers, we feel this is a perfect occasion to share our thoughts with regards to app piracy as a whole...

So you love Gameloft and Rockstar games but refuse to pay for them? If everyone was a moron like you, do you think we'd ever see MC5? I don't understand morons who can't spend $7 on a full featured game, not counting that they are often on sale.

You're clearly just kid and you don't have a job or probably never did either. Im glad not everyone is like you bc movie stars musicians, Google, and everyone in the computer and entertainment Industry would be working for free

I believe you are just an Apple troll that just want to make Android platform and it's users look like they support piracy.
Android users support piracy less than Apple users cause most of us know this OS and the work that devs put into making this even better.
But instead ios users cry for a jailbreak cause they spen a ton of money to buy a product that should cost no more than 300 bucks.

First time heard that someone feel offended by a pirate. I don't care if you pirate those application but by saying you feel offended while you just enjoying someone hard work by stealing just well, you absolutely has no right. Like a thief give report to the government because he feel offended by the law and the police.

It's much less than I get paid eating at work on one day. Really 30 bucks. I couldn't find anything criminal I would do to save 30$. 30000000$ maybe but 30... hmmm that's low. Perhaps I can understand certain iPhone users because they were robbed when buying the phone but else

Or all apps should be 10 cents thath's why I made myself a money for app counter-It looks up the app that i pirated and adds it to a total of purchased apps just to count how much money I would have spent. 76$ for 16 games. No way !

9.stychill (unregistered)

10 cents?

99 Cents for an app or game is a decent price, $76 is too much?. Quality apps and games don't take a second to make, time and effort goes into these things you enjoy using. Yet you say the developer doesn't deserve to rewarded for their efforts. i wonder how you would react if your employer refused to pay you after you worked for them

Step one. Extend the time on refund policies. For larger apps by the time you download it and realize its a ginourmous turd then your out of luck. This also applies with games and apps that have a learning curve. I pay for the majority of my apps but sometimes can't justify some of the prices or got burned by that company in the past.

Spot on. Try before you buy is the reason I pirate. I bought Nova, Swiftkey, Tasker, and Titanium but not before I used them for a few weeks or even months. I can't count the number of garbage paid apps that I have tried and subsequently uninstalled.

I will put this in simple terms. The day that developers make it easy enough and cheap enouh for me to buy an app i will stop using pirated programs and games, but as long as you charge one third of a average salary here for a pc game no thanx. Remember, most of the world is not rich as the glorious US of A

There will never be a fool proof way to prevent this type of behavior...when we had cassette tapes...people bootlegged them....cds....bootleggers...vhs tapes...bootleggers...cd-roms, x box 360 games, mp3s....it will never stop. The more difficult they make it to rip these files, the more people will stop doing it....for the most part,..

as stated before, this is something the majority of android and iphone users dont mess with...so its not that big of a deal

in my opinion, its best to buy an app because it will save your time looking for an update (waiting hacker to crack it) and use all of premium feature without any concern.. but, sometimes ( sometime its not 'sometime' but 'everytime') paid apps was very highly and wrongly priced.. that why people made pirate of it. you`ve got to think about the market first before stepping into the app making world dev.. then you don`t have to worry cause about your app being pirated.. make a good app, priced it fairly and nicely, people buying will increase instead people pirating it because we consumers know when to spend for the right thing for our money.

I done an I phone much but when I did installous was great simply by the fact they allowed a diverse, and useful apps that were not found in the regular app store.

Part of apples success derived from the home brew app/jailbreak scene that allowed users to operate an I phone on let's say r mobile, tether freely the unlimited data that was being offered.

Some of the arguments may be in the past if you want an apple go with art but that wasn't possible for many because of the high prices or general disgust with art's general lack of customers service. Or tethering is bad because it congests the network. Reality is art and verizon make a huge revenue year in and year out. I their gross exceeds that of big bad oil. They somehow get away without paying certain taxes and for the most part our government does little to keep them in check, and I'm looking at verizon and att. To make a long story a congested network is no way the consumers part.

Att and verizon have more than enough resources to build and expand their coverage. It's almost laughable, and consumers attack one another about data usage while att and verizon quietly get rich and abuse the consumers

Long tangent... I know. But I hope you see the relevance. The lack of software provided by appstore helps the rich

mostly, someone payed the apps to make himself money by sharing the payed apps on their blogs or uploaded on a file hosting that give at least payroll per download. thats how the piracy goes. some share for make money, some just share to make others enjoy or just to make their self to become famous or has big reputation on blogs or forums.

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